Hopes are running high in Sudan that US President Donald Trump will decide this week to lift Washington's sanctions on Khartoum, despite rights groups calling for the decades-old embargo to be maintained.

US President Donald Trump has demanded an apology over the Russia investigation rocking his presidency, as he kept up a days-long attack on Barack Obama for his handling of intelligence about election meddling by Moscow.

US President Donald Trump has told his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he wants to strengthen ties with Cairo, Sisi's office says, days after it emerged Washington had cut some aid to Egypt.

Former US president Barack Obama has called on Kenyans to hold a peaceful and untainted election. He said this while speaking out on the eve of a crucial vote in the east African country where his father was born.

In a series of tweets on Saturday morning, US President Donald Trump railed against Senate rules requiring 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, just a day after the chamber dealt a devastating setback to the GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Senate Republicans have watched support for their Obamacare repeal bill slide into perilous territory after the release of a non-partisan report forecasting that the plan would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured by 2026.

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